Live not by spin
In 1974, after being arrested for the crime of telling the truth, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn released his famous essay Live Not…
Values-based socialism – Jim’s Jamboree
The Productivity Summit has given us nothing
Inflation is a policy, not a problem
Inflation is the sneakiest tax of all. It does not show up on your payslip, there is no debate in…
Victoria’s crime issues
Lessons from the Chávez School of Public Safety
From Moscow to Canberra – the return of central planning
Albo’s arrogant plan to reshape Australia
Clown car redux
Albanese is a Ruddy mess all over again!
Melbourne on the Yangtze
In a stunning display of professional courtesy, the Chinese Communist Party has sought advice from the Victorian Labor government on…
Walking in Venezuela’s Shoes?
Flamingo frittata and pigeon pasta on the menu
Productivity vs the rent seekers’ tea party
How doomed is Australia? This much. The ABS, bless their public-service hearts, churns out mountains of data. Pity hardly anyone…
Australia’s education folly
A bureaucratic shuffle
Words matter
All roads lead to higher taxes
Productivity or a griftocracy?
Welcome to the Productivity Summit where the word ‘productivity’ means the exact opposite of what you think. The goal is…
Who really pays for taxes?
It’s always you, the consumer
Can we have that $444 million back?
In 2018, the Coalition government gifted $444 million of other people’s money to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. The money…
Ideas, my dear girl, ideas
Excuse me for so poorly paraphrasing Harold Macmillan, but fair dinkum. It feels like our political overlords are speaking in…
Quotas for – uh – merit?
It’s back. The discussion of gender quotas in parliament is back in a conversation being led by those who would…
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned
I am big on truth in political advertising which is why I think that so called planning departments should be…
The ‘leave me alone’ coalition
I have never really liked the whole left-right political construct. A framework of who sat to the left or the…
Elections: a trough of public money
When the major parties come together to tinker with electoral systems, there is one thing guaranteed; the citizens will get…
Freedom of speech? Tell ’em they’re dreaming
Last week, the High Court released the details of its judgment in the case of Ruddick v. Commonwealth of Australia. (Disclosure…
Speak loudly and wave around wet lettuce: Morrisonian national insecurity
The expression, ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’, is attributed to former American President Theodore Roosevelt. Imperfect as his…
Simpleton central
George Orwell once observed: ‘Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.’ What would Orwell say about Australian…
The Liberal Party’s mission to end liberalism
Come the next election, I will be voting the Liberal Party last. My reasoning is very simple. If I am…
November 11, 2021: the day the great war against the private sector was won
Without the slightest hint of irony, the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday released the latest Employment and Earnings, Public Sector…
Je suis ScoMo
Je suis ScoMo. Friends, Australians, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come not to bury the Prime Minister. This time. …
